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Anyone making $50k+/year without a college degree?
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<blockquote data-quote="Sirhc7897" data-source="post: 4895143" data-attributes="member: 10294"><p>I have a degree but I in no way got my job based on my degree...</p><p></p><p>I've got a bachelors in political science but I run the surveying side of a surveying & engineering business (about 8 million miles in the opposite direction of a P.S. degree)...</p><p></p><p>I pulled down a little over $115k last year...Been doing this for about 9 years and I turned 27 in January...Up until 2005 I was steady in the $40ish bracket but once I took over all that changed substantially...</p><p></p><p>99% of my profession is learned on the job though...I get guys in all the time with a geomatics degree (required in Florida to be a professionally licensed surveyor) who don't know squat...</p><p></p><p>Now my pay level is way out of proportion to the industry average but I'm one of the few individuals with a mastery of everything we could possibly do that works for a company that regularly inks huge state, federal and private contracts (not a little mom and pop lot surveying company)...</p><p></p><p>You see maybe one of me at every larger firm that makes 3-4 times what my counterparts at smaller places do simply because we are skilled in numerous platforms: Caice, EFB, AutoCAD LDD, Microstation, Geopak, numerous GPS software platforms, etc...not to mention sound field surveying techniques and minimum technical standards for mapping and these companies use individuals like me to spread the knowledge base over 10-15 lesser skilled drafters...</p><p></p><p>However in that same token...once I finish my geomatics degree (which I am currently working on) my pay level will go up another 50-75% or I will be made a partner to ensure retaining my services and that will involve a healthy percentage at the end of the year...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sirhc7897, post: 4895143, member: 10294"] I have a degree but I in no way got my job based on my degree... I've got a bachelors in political science but I run the surveying side of a surveying & engineering business (about 8 million miles in the opposite direction of a P.S. degree)... I pulled down a little over $115k last year...Been doing this for about 9 years and I turned 27 in January...Up until 2005 I was steady in the $40ish bracket but once I took over all that changed substantially... 99% of my profession is learned on the job though...I get guys in all the time with a geomatics degree (required in Florida to be a professionally licensed surveyor) who don't know squat... Now my pay level is way out of proportion to the industry average but I'm one of the few individuals with a mastery of everything we could possibly do that works for a company that regularly inks huge state, federal and private contracts (not a little mom and pop lot surveying company)... You see maybe one of me at every larger firm that makes 3-4 times what my counterparts at smaller places do simply because we are skilled in numerous platforms: Caice, EFB, AutoCAD LDD, Microstation, Geopak, numerous GPS software platforms, etc...not to mention sound field surveying techniques and minimum technical standards for mapping and these companies use individuals like me to spread the knowledge base over 10-15 lesser skilled drafters... However in that same token...once I finish my geomatics degree (which I am currently working on) my pay level will go up another 50-75% or I will be made a partner to ensure retaining my services and that will involve a healthy percentage at the end of the year... [/QUOTE]
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